Leonidas and the Spartans. While the Spartans were already commonly regarded by historians as one of the most badass civilizations in all of history, this movie, also making bored high school history students interested in a quaint little city state that they would not even know existed in the first place, exaggerated the idea further that the Spartans were really a race of hypermuscular Supermen who can each kill millions by themselves while wearing only underwear. It's like applying Chuck Norris Facts to an entire city.

The Bank Manager in the opening scene of The Dark Knight didn't grab a shotgun and start blowing away the Joker's gang away while screaming threats because he was a secret mafioso; he did it because William Fichtner is just that badass!

Bonecrusher hates this page and everyone on it. The only reason he hasn't ground the servers to dust and killed everyone who's ever edited the page is because it provides a handy list of people he needs to kill, and Bonecrusher hates to be unprepared.

William Wallace: Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace. Young Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall! William Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse. (Scottish army laughs)

Aragorn, King of Gondor. Who here has the audacity to leap into the middle of a mob of angry berserkers with nothing but an oversized knife and an attitude from Hell? Who jumps on the back of a massive beast that can singlehandedly rip apart Gondor's armies, kills every single person on it, then sprints to the forefront and kills it with ease. This is a beast that has very, very thick skin and is very large.

Who not only fought, but wounded Shelob? The world's most badass gardener, Samwise Gamgee. Then he killed a bunch of orcs singlehandedly.

Let it be known Éowyn is no man and caved the Witch-King's head in.

It took three arrows thicker than his finger and bigger than his leg to take Boromir down. The only reason he died at that point was because he was played by Sean Bean.

From The Mighty Ducks, Coach Gordon Bombay has become this to many Anaheim Ducks fans, and even some fans of other teams, especially in light of the 2015 Western Conference Finals, where it was the Ducks against the Blackhawks, shortened to the Hawks. And then after Emilio Estevez actually tweeted his support of the Ducks before Game 5 of said series, this formation happened.

If it's a monster, Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun will obliterate it with a machine gun, even on a day away from work. Even during her wedding. Calhoun earned the title of "Queen of Badassery" BEFORE she existed (that is, before her game was plugged in the arcade).

Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Because no one fights like Gaston, and no one hunts like Gaston, etc. Lampshaded in House of Mouse where they have a Running Gag of him butting in on other characters' conversations to say "No one [does what you're talking about] like Gaston!" (Actually, that episode might have been the inspiration for Gaston's meme.) In one episode, in which Clarabelle is gathering gossip, Gaston begrudgingly concedes that he has, indeed, seen others hunt like Gaston. There's also the Gaston Reads meme on dA. And at least one Take That! as well. No one can get eaten like Gaston! He was forced to avert his meme once, though - in which someone mentioned shutting up, he states "No one shuts up like... nevermind."

Disney seems to consider Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty one of these. In any given Disney crossover storyline, be it in books, video games, or theme park attractions, she's usually one of the Big Bads if not THE Big Bad. Then again, few other Disney villains have ever actually summoned up the powers of Hell? It also helps that she can turn into one of the most fearsome looking dragons in the history of animation. Maleficent is quite possibly the most evil villain that Disney has featured in a movie. After having captured the prince, and having placed Sleeping Beauty under the sleeping spell, she announces that she is going to let the prince go... when he's 118 years old (she outright states that she's going to keep him there for 100 years.) So that planting a kiss on Sleeping Beauty will likely be the last thing he ever does. Not only is he likely to drop dead as soon as he finishes kissing her Aurora is going to be left broken-hearted and have not aged a day. The animated Maleficent was absolutely cruel in every way. In fact there seems to be only one thing in the world she ever showed any kindness for and that is her pet raven.

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